Title: Barry Conners Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1913-1927, 2001

Creator:

• Conners, Barry, 1882-1933

Call Number: M2004-239

Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 14 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Barry Conners (1882-1933), a playwright and vaudeville entertainer, documenting play openings, reviews, and interviews with Conners. The scrapbooks consist of photographs and news clippings about performers and performances of some of Conners' plays. Also included is documentation of Conners' involvement with the White Rats Actors' Union, and his personal writings about the union. The bulk of the collection consists of scripts from plays and radio broadcasts written by Conners, including early drafts and completed manuscripts. The photographs include images of Conners, billboards announcing his plays, assorted friends from the vaudeville community, and family members. Also included is a biography entitled “My Grandfather's Trunk,” by Conners' grandson, Barry Rohan.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2004239

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Barry Rohan, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. Accession Number: M2004-239

M2004-239
Box   1 Folder   1	Biography, 2001
Box   1 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1917-1928
Box   1 Folder   3	News clippings, 1911-1933
Box   1 Folder   4	Miscellaneous playbills and promotional materials
Box   1 Folder   5	Photocopied scrapbook Scope and Content Note: News clippings about plays.
Box   3	Bound Scrapbook
Box   1 Folder   6	White Rats Actors' Union
	Scripts
Box   1 Folder   7	“A Little Applesauce,” 1924
Box   1 Folder   8	“Almost a Husband,” 1924
Box   1 Folder   9	“Ambitions and Baby-Fingers”
Box   1 Folder   10	“The Arm-Chair Trails”
Box   1 Folder   11	“The Blackmailers”
Box   1 Folder   12	“ 'Big Enough' McCann”
Box   1 Folder   13	“The Clean-Up,” 1922
Box   1 Folder   14	“Common-Sense, Limited,” 1918
Box   1 Folder   15	“Convention and the Girl”
Box   1 Folder   16	“The Desert Rat,” 1923
Box   1 Folder   17	“The Devil's Blessing,” 1921
Box   1 Folder   18	“The Devil You Say!” , 1923
Box   1 Folder   19	“The Dream,” 1923
Box   2 Folder   1	“The Dumdora,” 1922
Box   2 Folder   2	“An Emotional Journey”
Box   2 Folder   3	“The First Kiss,” 1923
Box   2 Folder   4	“The Four Flusher,” 1924
Box   2 Folder   5	“The Ghost Lake Parson”
Box   2 Folder   6	“Gimme Back My Toothache”
Box   2 Folder   7	“Hats on Beds”
Box   2 Folder   8	“The Hundred Dollar Whopper,” 1913
Box   2 Folder   9	“It Isn't Done,” 1924
Box   2 Folder   10	“Kith, Kin, and Company,” 1921
Box   2 Folder   11	“The Little Bigamist”
Box   2 Folder   12	“Love Lessons,” 1925
Box   2 Folder   13	“The Mad Honeymoon,” 1923
Box   2 Folder   14	“The Man Hunt,” 1923
Box   2 Folder   15	“Nothing Doing,” 1918
Box   2 Folder   16	“The Patsy,” 1925-1927
Box   2 Folder   17	“Proceed, Dorothy!” 1918
Box   2 Folder   18	Radio Comedy Skit to Promote Allan Dinhart
Box   2 Folder   19	“Sacrifice”
Box   2 Folder   20	“The Scar”
Box   2 Folder   21	“The Scenario”
Box   2 Folder   22	“The Talker,” 1923
Box   2 Folder   23	“Tears of the Poppy”
Box   2 Folder   24	“Told of Two,” 1926
Box   2 Folder   25	Untitled script
PH Box   7	Photographs